333148042 | Mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests. Only so much money and a nation won't benifit with out hurting another nation. | 0 | |
333148043 | Great League of Peace and Power | confederation of Iroquois tribes (military and spiritual alliance) | 1 | |
333148044 | Northwest passage | a water route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along the northern coast of North America | 2 | |
333148045 | Fur trade | The trading of fur and animal pelts in the North because the Northern soil was not suitable for cash crops. | 3 | |
333148046 | Metis | a half-breed of white and Indian parentage | 4 | |
333148047 | Puritans | Protestant sect in England hoping to "purify" the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization. | 5 | |
333148048 | Maroon community | group of escaped slaves in Latin America | 6 | |
333148049 | Big whites | french plantation owners in Haiti and other Caribean places | 7 | |
333148050 | Pawns | a person or entity of lesser stature, used for political or personal gain by those in power, those, especially women or children, whose individual lives are sacrificed to serve other's interests: a ruler's daughters married for purposes of state or family alliance; dependents sold into temporary slavery as collateral on a family debt; dependents given to a ruler as a sign of fealty | 8 | |
333148051 | Ekpe | Powerful slave trade institution that organized the supply and purchase of slaves inland from the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. | 9 | |
333148052 | Asante state | Located in present-day Ghana, this state was founded by the Asantes at the end of the seventeenth century. It grew in power in the next century because of its access to gold and its involvement in the slave trade. | 10 | |
333148053 | East India Company | an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia | 11 | |
333148054 | Tsar | a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) | 12 | |
333148055 | Fluitschips | Dutch shipping vessels that could carry heavy bulky cargo with relatively small crews. | 13 | |
333148056 | Church of England | Church created in England as a result of a political dispute between Henry VIII and the Pope, Pope would not let Henry divorce his wife | 14 | |
333148057 | Seven Years' War (1756-1763) | Conflict fought in Europe and its overseas colonies; in North America, known as the French and Indian War | 15 |
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